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ITALY - JANUARY 24: Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi waits for a confidence vote at the Senate. Italian Premier Romano Prodi resigned after his center-left coalition lost a Senate confidence vote, a humiliating end to a 20-month-old government in Rome, Italy on January 24, 2008 (Photo by Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

ITALY - JANUARY 24:  Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi waits for a confidence vote at the Senate. Italian Premier Romano Prodi resigned after his center-left coalition lost a Senate confidence vote, a humiliating end to a 20-month-old government in Rome, Italy on January 24, 2008  (Photo by Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)